Dungarvan Animal Matters and Welfare Information

15/01/2025

Stray dog at Eurospar Abbeyside with blue collar , no tag

15/01/2025

100% of neutering costs covered and microchipping, if needed.

Available until the end of January 2025.

**This scheme is being funded by the DAFM through ISPCA****
*******Limited Funding Available*********

14/01/2025

The fact remains, if greyhound racing in this country was not in receipt of government - read tax money, then it would be long gone.

Of the tax money paid over to the greyhound ‘industry’, this year almost 20 million euro, anything up to 10 million will be used to pay out PRIZE MONEY TO OWNERS.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Waterford is denied 24/7 cardiac care at UHW. One needs to schedule one’s heart attack between 8-8. After that it’s the Russian roulette game of whether a person will make the over 1 hour journey to Cork. I’m pretty sure that money, paid to gamblers and breeders, would be better used elsewhere - given that it’s tax payers money. Our politicians, however, don’t seem to agree.

Greyhound racing is based on over breeding and killing, and no matter what shiny facade GRI tries to portray, or what the parish pump brigade says, that is the bottom line.

📢 CALL TO ACTION: STOP FUNDING GREYHOUND CRUELTY! 🐾

Join us as we raise OUR voices for the GREYHOUNDS at a peaceful Demonstration!

📅 When: Wednesday, January 22nd
⏰ Time: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
📍 Where: Outside Dáil Éireann

As the Dáil reconvenes and a possible new government is formed, we’re sending a loud and clear message: END public funding for greyhound racing!

It’s time to stop this state-sponsored cruelty. Let’s stand together to demand a more compassionate and ethical Ireland. Your presence can make a real difference for these innocent animals.

Please share and invite your friends! Together, we can be the change.



Organised by Greyhound Action Ireland Greyhound Awareness Cork DEEL Sighthound Rescue

14/01/2025

Deviants.

There are renewed calls for a ban on fox hunting in Ireland after foxes were terrorised by a pack of dogs during a recent hunt which started from Oldcastle in County Meath.

A 22 November 2024 Ballymacad Foxhounds report in the Irish Field outlined that the first fox was found in Cruxty Bog.

The dogs "pushed this fox across country through Vincie Black’s, keeping up the same pattern until crossing the laneway to the far road, where they marked him to ground."

In fox hunting terminology, “marked to ground” refers to the point when the pack of hounds chase the fox into an earth or drain. This is typically followed by the arrival of the hunt’s terriermen who cruelly catch the fox using shovels, spades and terriers before the doomed animal is pulled out and brutally killed.

A fox was also targeted in Red Bog and "after hunting in covert, he was marked to ground".

Another fox ran for his life in a circle before he too was marked to ground.

Later, "hounds had another [fox] on the run in a wide loop through Charles McMahon’s and James Lynch’s, but with so many cattle still out in this area, the huntsman blew for home after the pack marked him to ground".

The Irish Field report went on to detail another Ballymacad hunt two days later. Among those involved in the pursuit of the unfortunate foxes were "children well able to cross country".

On the day, a fox was seen trying to escape from the hunters and hounds during "a run of 25 minutes".

According to the hunting report, the pack of dogs "had to be accurate on a twisting fox over a number of farms".

This was followed by hunting in a forest before yet another fox was disturbed from a derelict building and chased. The fate of this fox was not revealed.

ACTION ALERT

Join us in urging Irish political party leaders to back a ban on fox hunting in Ireland.

Simon Harris TD
Leader, Fine Gael
Telephone: +353 (0)1 618 3805 or +353 (0)1 889 2442
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
X: http://www.twitter.com/SimonHarrisTD
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeputySimonHarris

Micheál Martin TD
Leader, Fianna Fail
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Phone: +353 (0)1–618 4350 or +353 (0)21-432 0088
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michealmartintd/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/

Mary Lou McDonald TD
Leader, Sinn Fein
Tel: (01) 727 7102
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryLouMcDonald
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MaryLouMcDonaldTD

Ivana Bacik TD
Leader, The Labour Party
Tel: (01) 6183136
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ivanabacik
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bacikivana/

If you are a landowner, make your land off-limits to hunters. Find out more about how to do this on our Farmers/Landowners Page – http://www.banbloodsports.com/farmers.htm

Witness the cruelty of foxhunting at
http://www.banbloodsports.com/videos.htm

Please support our campaign with a donation
https://www.paypal.me/banbloodsports

09/01/2025

Well done to An Garda Siochana - Kilkenny.

06/01/2025

Apparently, the weather is going to get significantly colder over the next few days.

PLEASE ensure unsheltered HORSES have good quality feed, and access to water.

Please don’t leave dogs,cats or other small animals outside in sheds - or any other form of make shift housing.

Remember the birds too - bread is better than nothing. Any leftover food like cereals, toast, potatoes, even veg will be gladly eaten by our crow friends.

If you know of any animals that are being neglected by their owners, call the authorities. Rescues DONT have the power of entry to premises, but the Gardai, the Ispca and the department of agriculture do - but remember, they only operate OFFICE HOURS.

The Gardai can assist, by means of their authority under the AHWA 2013, ANY rescue that needs to help/remove an animal in distress. All they have to do is make a call. Most rescues don’t operate office hours.

Also, the ‘welfare’ of dogs is NOT within the remit of the dog warden service - though they too have powers of access to premises under the COD Act 1986.

04/01/2025

Please bring your animals indoors!

⚠️UPDATE TO WARNINGS: Waterford has been added to the status orange rain and snow warning.

Please keep up to date with all current warnings➡️ http://met.ie/warnings-today.html and on our App.

03/01/2025

I’m not sure if there’s a level of depravity that accurately describes those who get their kicks from fox hunting? What perverse ‘need’ drives them? It’s not about so called pest control, it’s about the perverse form of pleasure that is derived from cruelty.It is a deviancy , and there can be no doubt about it.

There are renewed calls for a ban on fox hunting in Ireland after foxes were terrorised by a pack of 43 dogs during a recent hunt in Louth.

The shameful hunt started from the land of a "hunting farmer" which was farcically described as a "haven for wildlife”.

A fox in this so-called haven was among those targeted by the hunt.

A Louth Foxhounds hunt report in the Irish Field (13 December 2024) stated that "the huntsman drew Moonbeagh Covert in hunt host Andy Dunne’s farm and, what a sound, with the pack in full voice - for a time, we patiently listened to in-covert hunting and watched both ends to see where the fox would break cover."

The fox eventually ran from the covert and was seen desperately trying to escape from the pursuing pack of hounds who "screamed away towards Barmeath Castle boundary wall".

The dogs then "hunted the fox in the woods of Barmeath Castle, marking him to ground eventually near the gate lodge."

In fox hunting terminology, “marked to ground” refers to the point when the pack of hounds chase the fox into an earth or drain. This is typically followed by the arrival of the hunt’s terriermen who cruelly catch the fox using shovels, spades and terriers before the doomed animal is pulled out and brutally killed.

Another unfortunate fox was chased out of Barmeath Woods and back towards the wildlife "haven" where he too was marked to ground.

The hunters also went after a fox who was disturbed from a covert.

This fox "ran a few wide circles and then crossed the road near Dysert Church" where, according to the Irish Field report, the hunt was stopped.

Shame on the Irish Government for allowing this bloodsport to continue. A RED C opinion poll, commissioned by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports, shows that a 77% majority (in both urban and rural areas) agree that the government should ban fox hunting. The poll found that just 12 per cent disagree with a ban.

ACTION ALERT

Join us in urging Irish political party leaders to back a ban on fox hunting in Ireland.

Simon Harris TD
Leader, Fine Gael
Telephone: +353 (0)1 618 3805 or +353 (0)1 889 2442
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
X: http://www.twitter.com/SimonHarrisTD
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeputySimonHarris

Micheál Martin TD
Leader, Fianna Fail
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Phone: +353 (0)1–618 4350 or +353 (0)21-432 0088
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michealmartintd/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/

Roderic O’Gorman TD
Leader, Green Party
Tel: (01) 6642052
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RodericOG/
X: https://x.com/rodericogorman

Mary Lou McDonald TD
Leader, Sinn Fein
Tel: (01) 727 7102
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryLouMcDonald
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MaryLouMcDonaldTD

Ivana Bacik TD
Leader, The Labour Party
Tel: (01) 6183136
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ivanabacik
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bacikivana/

If you are a landowner, make your land off-limits to hunters. Find out more about how to do this on our Farmers/Landowners Page – http://www.banbloodsports.com/farmers.htm

Witness the cruelty of foxhunting at
http://www.banbloodsports.com/videos.htm

Please support our campaign with a donation
https://www.paypal.me/banbloodsports

03/01/2025

Again, PLEASE, PLEASE bring pets indoors for the next few nights. The temperatures are predicted to be abnormally low for this country until maybe mid week. Dogs, cats, rabbits etc cannot handle this level of cold.

Already tonight I’ve been made aware of two small dogs, left in an empty property in Ring with only the barest of shelter. The Gardai have attended, but walked away. I guess no one told them that they are AUTHORISED OFFICERS under the AHWA 2013 - as in animal welfare officers, who are supposed to be the back up for the 9-5, 5 day week brigade, or so the story goes. Not all Garda stations are equal in this regard - several will go out of their way to assist dogs in distress. If this weather doesn’t count as distress - what does?
Waterford Animal Welfare

03/01/2025

If there’s anyone in the Ring area that can take in two small dogs tonight will you please message me asap.

03/01/2025

This is the sort of thing that backyard breeders and puppy farmers are responsible for. Look at this beautiful boy, and how he’s suffering for some asshole’s greed. How many more are they breeding? Unchecked in the case of backyard breeders, or only the barest of requirements for puppy farmers.

This won’t stop until the monster is no longer being fed. A ‘registered’ large breeding establishment, under the DBE is meaningless.